Thursday, 22 February 2018

In How Many Ways Can You Check In On Jet Airways Flights?

There was a time when passengers had to queue up at airports for checking-in. The air passenger traffic and airlines were also limited at that time as compared to the present day numbers. If the same method of airport counter check in is the only means to get the boarding pass, you can expect a lot of congestion at airports. Technology has come to the aid of airline, airport management and, ultimately, passengers. They can make use of a number of means at their disposal for checking-in through a number of alternative means. There might be quite a few ifs and buts, and a few terms and conditions on who can avail this and where these can be availed.
Jet Airways provides a number of means of checking in. Each of these has check-in cut-off times and attached conditions to be met for easy and safe check-in. While web check in is quite common, you will also find a number of rather unheard of Jet Airways check-in methods, including twitter check-in, through check-in, Metro check in for Delhi and others. Let us have a look at these:

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Airport Check-in
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Tele Check-in
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Express Check-in
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Tweet Check-in : #JetInstant
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One Time Check-in on Return Journey
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Through Check-in
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Metro Check-in at Delhi
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Baggage Tag Through facility to / from Macau
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Sea-to-Air Baggage Tag - From Macau to Hong Kong Airport Ferry Skypier Terminal
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Air-to-Sea Baggage Tag - from Mumbai / Delhi to Hong Kong and connecting on to Turbojet / Cotaijet Ferry to Macau from the Hong Kong International Airport Ferry Skypier Terminal
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Check-in at Lianhuashan, Macau and Shenzhen ferry ports for travel from Hong Kong
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City check-in terminal at Abu Dhabi
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City check-in terminal at Dammam

Thursday, 8 February 2018

Jet Airways Baggage Drop Off Facilities


Jet Airways allows you to perform check-in in a number of ways, not just at the airport check-in counter. In order to make check-in from remote means possible, especially through the online check in medium feasible, it is pertinent to provide some kind of facility for the passengers to leave their check-in baggage and proceed for security check. Since the airlines do provide the check in baggage allowance and also the web check in, passengers having check in bags need to get their tags and leave these at some designated points. Jet Airways provides these counters at designated airports in India and in other cities of the world. Passengers who have performed Jet Airways online check-in either through its mobile website or the mobile application, can use these facilities.

Domestic Cities
Ahmedabad
Amritsar
Bengaluru
Bhopal
Chandigarh
Chennai
Coimbatore
Delhi
Goa
Hyderabad
Indore
Kochi
Kolkata
Mangalore
Mumbai
Pune
Rajkot
Thiruvananthapuram
Vadodara

International Cities
Abu Dhabi
Bangkok
Colombo
Dammam
Dhaka
Doha
Dubai
Hong Kong
Jeddah
Kathmandu
Kuwait
London
Paris
Riyadh
Sharjah
Singapore
Toronto

Take a note of these cities since this advance information can save you a lot of time.

Friday, 2 February 2018

Etihad changes allowance rules- Who Gained, Who Lost?


Etihad, the Abu Dhabi flag carrier, has again changed its baggage allowance rules. Moving away from the piece-based system of allowance for almost all of its routes except for United States and Canada, it has embraced the weight-based system yet again.

The new rules will be applicable for tickets bought after 31 January, 2018. For the ticket bought before this date, the old policy will continue. The minimum allowance for piece based system was 1 bag of 23 kg, and this will be replaced with a minimum allowance of 30 kg for most of the routes. With this shift in Etihad baggage allowance policy, let us examine, who will be carrying more allowance and who will take less?

For people travelling from/to South America and Bermuda, the allowance will now be as per the General Policy (minimum 23 kg for Deal fare tickets). This will be a loss since earlier the allowance was 2 bags of 23 kg or 47 kgs in total.

Traveller flying to or from Africa earlier used to take 2 bags of 23 kg each as a minimum allowance. This has now changed. Etihad has re-jiged the allowance by providing 40 kg allowance for people travelling out of African countries on Economy and Business class flights. 

For flights to Africa, it has divided into two parts- those arriving from GCC, Lebanon and Jordan and those arriving from India, Pakistan, China, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. The former are allowed 40kg as minimum allowance whereas it is 30 kg for the latter. 

Earlier, people travelling to/from UK from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh could carry at least 2 bags of 23 kg as allowance, now all flights from Europe to India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Philippines will get only 30 kg as minimum allowance. On flights from these destinations to some European countries would be minimum 30 kg.

Specific mention has been made of three flight segments. 
a. From India and Pakistan to Australia- minimum 30 kg allowance
b. From Italy to China- minimum 30 kg allowance
c. Between UAE, Bahrain and Kuwait- Only Hand baggage allowed in Deals fare ticket. 

Even the General Policy which would cover all other routes which have not been mentioned has been changed from piece-based to weight-based.